Missouri · Nonprofit
TRAILSPRING INC
TRAILSPRING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,998 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($1,228,424). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Trailspring Inc does
Mission
The mission of Trailspring Inc. is to improve the health and activity level of the Springfield area by creating and maintaining a network of multi-use trails. Through this network, provide measurable economic impact in order to engage community enterprises to contribute to the education and construction of this network and further perpetuate the health of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TrailSpring completed the first phase (approx.10 miles) of construction of Two Rivers Bike Park, which opened in August 2013. Two Rivers now consists of over 14 miles of professionally built single track trail. Opening day had over 450 attendees with 2014 attendance at well over 100 users per weekend and 200 users per week. The purpose of the trails are for hiking, walking, biking, birding, and educational clinics for all of those activities. Races are held at Two Rivers as well as instructional classes, wilderness safety courses, and trail building clinics. The construction of the trail included over 3,000 volunteer hours through TrailSpring's "Earn Your Dirt" program. Trail users continue to grow annually. For complete information, please visit www.trailspring.org
$324,256 spent94% of program spendingTrailSpring completed phase one of Dirt 66 at Fellows Lake, in Springfield MO. Phase one includes approximately 25 miles of single track trails traversing the perimeter of Fellows Lake. The trail system hosted multiple mountain bike events in 2023, including a National Interscholastic Cycling Association ("NICA") race with approximately 500 youth racers. The trails were constructed by three different trail contractors, and are maintained by a trail manager and volunteers. Full details can be found at trailspring.org
$20,000 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,256.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $731k to $1.7M (+136%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of TRAILSPRING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $31 → $128k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TRAILSPRING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TRAILSPRING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TRAILSPRING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of TRAILSPRING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
TRAILSPRING INC receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TRAILSPRING INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRAILSPRING INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRAILSPRING INC?
- TRAILSPRING INC (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,998 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($1,228,424). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRAILSPRING INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,265,998 in grants to TRAILSPRING INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAILSPRING INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,228,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAILSPRING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing